Data center colocation services provider Cyxtera Technologies will start trading Friday on Nasdaq after it completed its merger with blank check company Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAC). Both parties first announced the $3.4 billion merger deal in February and Cyxtera said Thursday SVAC’s stockholders approved the combination durin...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Astronautics Corporation of America subsidiary Kearfott an $82.12 million sole-source contract to repair navigation systems on B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bombers. The defense equipment manufacturer will work on the B-52 inertial measurement unit and attitude motion sensor set at its facility in Pine Brook, New Jersey, ...
Artificial intelligence technology company Shield AI has agreed to purchase Plano, Texas-based unmanned aircraft system maker Martin UAV in a strategy to integrate autonomy software into the latter’s vertical takeoff-and-landing platform for air defense applications. The two companies said Wednesday that Shield AI plans to combine its Hivemind...
The General Services Administration has released the full list of awardees on a potential 10-year, multiple-award master contract to research, develop, maintain, support and operate manned, optionally manned and unmanned platforms and robotics systems. GSA divided the awardees on the ASTRO contract into 10 pools encompassing various services in supp...
Noblis has formed a new subsidiary following its acquisition of McKean Defense Group with the goal to offer integrated mission services to the U.S. Navy and other military agencies. The Noblis MSD business, which includes former Mckean affiliate Cabrillo Technologies, aims to support Department of Defense customers in emerging technology areas such ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will continue providing support for the U.S. Army’s geospatial information program as part of a $151.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Army Geospatial Center. Under AGC’s High-Resolution, 3-D Geospatial Information program, Leidos will perform operation and technology integration work through Sept. 5, ...
Lloyd McCoy, former manager of the public sector market intelligence team at immixGroup, has been appointed director of market intelligence at DLT Solutions’ Office of the Chief Technology Officer. He will lead the company’s market intelligence strategies for assessing markets, identifying new business opportunities for technology providers and ...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico used his first article for the program to shine a light on the major improvements that government contractors and the...
Amentum has received a five-year, $301.4 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force maintain three jet trainer platforms, The company will perform organizational- and intermediate-level maintenance support for the T-38C Talon, T-6A Texon II and T-1A Jayhawk aircraft at Vance AF Base, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. USAF officially award...
The White House has released a national security memorandum to improve the cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure. The memo announces the establishment of the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to facilitate the deployment of technologies meant to provide threat detection and visibility and cyber response capabilities in o...
